Research Catalog

Title

Electronic media and industrialized nations : a comparative study / Donald R. Browne.

Author

Browne, Donald R.

Publication

Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1999.

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Description

xiii, 561 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Electronic Media and Industrialized Nations: A Comparative Study provides an in-depth examination of the electronic media in five industrialized nations. It also considers the basic features of all systems and desirable goals for an ideal system."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Browne introduces the elements that characterize the electronic media, the factors that influence them, and how they affect specific systems. For each nation, Browne discusses the history, programming philosophies, and problems of its media system. New to this book are sections on minorities and the media, and an analysis of how recent political changes in Germany and the Soviet Union/Russia have affected the electronic media in those nations."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Broadcasting > Europe
• Mass media > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-533) and index.

Contents

1. Comparing Electronic Media Systems -- 2. France: From Competition to Monopoly and Back Again -- 3. The Netherlands: Plurality in an Era of Competition -- 4. Germany: States' Rights, National Goals and Unification -- 5. The Soviet Union and Russia: From Communism to Capitalism? -- 6. What's Comparable, What Isn't And What It May Mean.

ISBN

0813804221

LCCN

98055110

OCLC

• 40559742
• ocm40559742

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries